PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Spot Purchase for Legal Services

How to read contract values: notice stages, dates and worked examples

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · published 4 Nov 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDedd77737-9e18-4aeb-bb57-4a715d8d56c4-920467
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-be4117eb-a579-4fa3-bb6e-a60cc59e727c
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-332239
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£436,000
award field
Tender value
£436,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
Not stated
M20 4BX
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Spot Purchase for Legal Services QR-CHRT1082-2026-27 CM

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

Source-date conflictAt least one reported end date precedes its corresponding start date. Check the official notice before using the schedule.
  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release4 Nov 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published1 Feb 2027
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published4 Nov 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Feb 2027
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jan 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

Hill Dickinson LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Nov 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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